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Monday, 31 December 2012

Loosing weight is a challenged but it can be achieved, the main focus on weight lost should be calories in and calories out, that simple means eat less. Lets do some simple maths, 3500 calories make 1 pound try and eat 500 calories less a day and in one week you will loose one pound.
You can loose weight true exercise which helps to strengthen the muscles and burn calories in the process, walking is a great exercise you can burn up to 305 calories by walking for one hour. You don't have to walk one straight hour you can walk 30 minutes in the morning, 15 minutes in your lunch time and 15 minutes in the evenings.
Swimming is a great exercise to loose but you have to be careful in the water at all times. You can loose up to 632 calories a hour swimming. You can swim 10 minutes at a time if you cant go the full hour straight. and please remember be careful in the water.
Rope jumping (skipping) is my favorite form of exercise, you burn calories real fast when you jump rope you can loose up to 1,286 calories a hour jumping rope. It will take some practice but as time goes by you will be good at it. What i do is jump six set of ten minutes at day, i do 20 minutes in the morning, 20 minutes at noon and 20 in the evening. And i can tell you that it really works.There are other types of exercise that you can use to achieve your weight lost goals but the main thing in weight lost is to burn more calories than what you take in.

Tuesday, 25 December 2012

Everybody wants to make extra money in these times but because
of the harsh economical situation it is hard. The good news is that it can be
done but it will take a lot of work, one of the easiest way is online the
reason for this is because the start up cost is very low.

If you are thinking about getting rich quick please don’t continue
to read this post because it won’t help you, if you are willing to work hard
and have patient then continue to read. One way to start is to set up a blog;
you can do this by going to blogger.com and start a blog in five minutes.

Starting the blog is just the beginning of the work, next
you need to identify a topic that you are passionate about and create blog posts
about your passion.

Next step is to market your blog, if you bake the best cake
in the world and nobody knows about it you won’t make one cent of it. So that’s
where marketing comes into play, ways to market your blog is by using social
net works the main ones that I use are facebook and twitter .

What I do is find groups on facebook who have an interest in
what I write about and send then links to my site. The most important thing is
backlinks, backlinks bring real traffic to your site taken into account that search
engines love backlinks.

Find posts that are relevant to your article and leave a
link to your site after you have contributed to that post. After you have setup
your blog create your posts and market your blog by sending traffic to your
site from social networks and backlinks then you can start monetize your blog?

One way to monetize your blog is to run ads on your blog,
you can try Google Adsense , google adsense will run ads on your blog and give
you apart of the revenue. You can also make money from your blog by selling
stuff for Amazon.

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

The search for effective treatments for diabetes, especially type 2
diabetes, remains a challenge for medical researchers, regardless of
their background. As many of you know, many of the oral medications have
significant side effects that are not popular with patients, have
limited effectiveness, or lack evidence of impacting the course of the
disease, including the development of complications. This challenge,
combined with an increasing interest in herbal and complementary
medicine has led to a search for effective natural therapies that have
significant effects on blood sugar levels, blood pressure, etc.

Diabetes
Action Research and Education Foundation is the only diabetes
organization to specifically prioritize research funding to universities
and researchers committed to discovering and evaluating effective
natural therapies to help combat diabetes! Your support
of Diabetes Action and its research efforts is greatly appreciated, as
you and the ones you love will benefit from their contributions to
advancing research on natural choices and healthy lifestyles- critical
to long-term success in managing diabetes.

Cinnamon, the brown, mildly bitter, mild spicy cooking herb, has
gained popularity as an herbal treatment for diabetes because it is
readily available and relatively inexpensive. Since this original
publication, several others have studied cinnamon in different groups of
people and challenged the original findings, while additional
publications suggested the type of cinnamon and/or how the extract was
made may be significant factors in the effects cinnamon has on blood
sugar. Also, many research publications have focused on laboratory
measures, which are important in diabetes, but do not fully account for
risk; some publications suggest cinnamon may have other benefits, like
antioxidant effects and production against "type 3 diabetes" or insulin
resistance in the brain. In this article I will review the recent
clinical evidence on cinnamon, and provide some guidance on if you
should try it yourself!

What Makes Cinnamon "Work"?

Cinnamon contains rather high levels of compounds called "polyphenols"1.
Polyphenols refer to the chemical structure of an entire class of
compounds that have rather high antioxidant activity, and are typically
very effective in reducing the oxidative processes that change fats and
lipids into potent inflammatory compounds (e.g. peroxidation). Cinnamon
is not the only food/herbal medicine that has high amounts of these
polyphenols; other examples include green tea, darkly colored berries,
red grapes, some nuts including peanuts, and dark chocolate.
Translational research by Roussel et al. supports the antioxidant
effects of a water-soluble cinnamon extract (a preparation method that
concentrates polyphenols) 2. Some recent studies suggest, for
safety and better efficacy, that the water-soluble compounds in
cinnamon are the most effective, however good clinical research has not
yet compared this extract (and commercially available product) to the
whole herb3.

Does Clinical Research Support Cinnamon as an Effective Treatment?

A
publication by Dr. Khan and Dr. Anderson reported research supported by
Diabetes Action that suggested cinnamon reduced blood sugar for
patients with type 2 diabetes.

The first significant clinical study evaluating Cinnamon was published by Khan et al. in 2003.4
In this trial, 60 Pakistani participants took Cinnamon (Cinnamon
cassia) orally for 40 days at three different doses (1, 3, or 6 grams
per day).After 40 days, significant reductions in fasting blood sugar,
cholesterol (including LDL or "bad" cholesterol) and triglycerides were
noted at each dose, although the group receiving the 6 grams per day
dose did have a larger percent reduction in blood glucose compared to
the 1 and 3 gram per day dosing groups (29% vs. ~25%). One limitation in
this study is that the results may not be applicable to all people, as
the trial was performed in Pakistan, where dietary intake of polyphenol
compounds is quite limited, and thus introducing dietary polyphenols in
such significant amounts may have different effects than it would in
groups of people with more diverse dietary intake of polyphenol
compounds, including the United States. The flip side of this criticism
is that people in Pakistan are relatively medication naive and take
fewer supplements, thus creating a nice "blank slate" for research that
avoids potential confounders. The next trial, published by Mang, et al. in 2006, evaluated a
water-soluble extract, corresponding to 3 grams of cinnamon, in 79
German participants with type 2 diabetes for four months.5
Although fasting glucose was lowered at the end of the trial, the
reductions were modest compared to the findings by Khan et al.; average
reductions were about 10%. Unlike the findings of Khan et al., changes
in cholesterol and triglycerides were not significant, nor were changes
in hemoglobin A1c. Additional clinical research on cinnamon was published by Suppapitiporn et al. also in 2006.6
In their clinical trial, 60 Thai participants with type 2 diabetes took
1.5 grams per day of encapsulated whole cinnamon powder or placebo for 3
months. At the end of the trial period, no significant changes were
evident in either fasting glucose, hemoglobin A1c or lipids. There was
suggestion that a greater percentage of patients in the cinnamon group
achieved glucose "control" (i.e. reached a hemoglobin A1c value of <
7%), however this difference (35% vs. 15%) was not statistically
significant.
The saga continues with the clinical trial published by Vanschoonbeek
et al. in which 25 post-menopausal women with type 2 diabetes, from the
Netherlands, were randomized to take either 1.5 grams of ground, whole
herb cinnamon or placebo for 6 weeks.Evaluating the effectiveness of cinnamon at the end of 2006 would
have led, I'm afraid, to an assessment of "not effective" based on
rather small and highly variable fasting glucose reductions seem across
studies. Fear not, we only had to wait a year to get more evidence! In 2007, Altschuler et al. published the first available clinical trial of cinnamon in participants with type 1 diabetes.8
In this trial, 72 adolescents with type 1 diabetes were randomized to
receive either 1 gram/day of cinnamon or placebo for 3 months. At the
end of the trial period, no significant changes in hemoglobin A1c,
insulin sensitivity, or daily insulin use (units/day). In fact, insulin
use actually increased in the cinnamon group. It is important to
differentiate this study from the other studies discussed above. Type 1
diabetes is a very different condition than type 2, with different
causative factors and pathogenesis. It may be possible that the
polyphenols of cinnamon have a sensitizing effect on insulin only in the
presence of significant insulin resistance (this may be due to the role
lipid peroxides have on inducing insulin resistance, which may be
improved with antioxidant polyphenol supplementation).

cinnamon can improve insulin sensitivity in healthy adults, how this evidence applies to people with diabetes is less clear...

In hopes of addressing the limitations in the trial by Khan et al.,
specifically the population in the study, in 2007 Blevins et al.
published the results of their clinical trial performed in the United
States.9 In their study, 60 participants with type 2 diabetes
and very stable medications were randomly assigned to take cinnamon (1
gram per day) or placebo for 3 months. At the end of 3 months, there
were no significant changes in fasting glucose, hemoglobin A1c, insulin,
insulin sensitivity or lipid values. Notably a considerable percentage
of the participants (~75%) in this trial were taking insulin sensitizing
medications, which may have over-powered any modest action of the
cinnamon extract. As you have probably noticed, many researchers attempted to replicate
the findings of Khan et al in different populations, but using similar
doses, i.e. 1-1.5 grams/day. However, the basis for the dosing in the
original trial wasn't specific, rather it was a somewhat arbitrary
attempt at performing a dose-response study, and therefore, although
reasonable to try these doses again, new research exploring even higher
doses stopped until the 2007 publication by Solomon et al.10 In their study, 7 healthy adults without diabetes performed three oral glucose tolerance tests (An
oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) is performed by having a patient
drink a standardized solution containing 75 grams of glucose, and then
measuring insulin and glucose simultaneously for several hours
following. The values are then plotted as a curve; the area under the
curve provides meaningful reflections of glucose tolerance and can be
used to estimate insulin sensitivity.) preceded by 5 grams
of cinnamon, 5 grams of placebo, or 5 grams of cinnamon given 12-hours
before the OGTT. Their results demonstrated significant reductions in
post-OGTT blood glucose corresponding to measured improvements in
insulin sensitivity. Solomon et al. continued their translational research evaluating the
effects of high dose cinnamon powder on insulin sensitivity in healthy
adults by evaluating the effects of sustained short-term intake (3 grams
per day or placebo for 14 days) on glucose and insulin measures also
following OGTT.11 In this study, cinnamon reduced blood
glucose following the OGTT, reduced insulin response to the OGTT and
improved insulin sensitivity compared with the placebo. However, the
effects were lost however almost immediately upon stopping the cinnamon
extract. Although these small, translational trials provide "proof of concept"
evidence, i.e. cinnamon can improve insulin sensitivity in healthy
adults, how this evidence applies to people with diabetes is less clear.
First of all, the dose used here, 3 and 5 grams per day, are very
large. One concern I have is the differences in liver health in
"healthy" adults vs. adults with diabetes. As many patients with
diabetes also suffer from elevated liver enzymes due to a condition of
increased fat deposition in the liver (a condition called non-alcohol
steatohepatitis (NASH) or "fatty liver" disease), the effects of such
large doses of cinnamon on liver health should be studied more before
doses of cinnamon this large are considered for routine use.

...a greater reducation in A1c was evident in the cinnamon group...this finding was highly statistically significant.

Although the clinical trials that have been published on cinnamon
generally show very few, if any, side effects, none of these trials have
reported very systematic approaches to measuring side effects and none
of the studies provide evidence of safety based on laboratory results.
Just when findings were starting to look really quite bleak for a
role of cinnamon in lowering blood sugar in people with diabetes, Dr.
Crawford published a clinical trial (apparently performed all by
himself) evaluating the impact of whole-herb cinnamon (Cinnamon cassia, 1
gram per day for 3 months) vs. placebo in 109 patients with type 2
diabetes recruited from three primary care clinics on a US military
base. Cinnamon was added to normal medications and medication changes
were not meaningfully different between groups at the end of the study.In
this clinical trial, a ~0.5% greater reduction in hemoglobin A1c was
evident in the cinnamon group compared to the placebo group; this
finding was highly statistically significant. This trial is notable for
several reasons, including its size (the largest randomized trial
performed thus far) and its "Western" participant group from a typical
clinical practice setting.

Friday, 14 December 2012

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A man opened fire Friday inside two classrooms at the Connecticut elementary school where his mother was a teacher, killing 26 people, including 20 children, as youngsters cowered in corners and closets and trembled helplessly to gunshots reverberating through the building.

The 20-year-old killer, carrying two handguns, committed suicide at the school, and another person was found dead at a second scene, bringing the toll to 28, authorities said.

Police shed no light on the motive for the attack. The gunman was believed to suffer from a personality disorder and lived with his mother in Connecticut, said a law enforcement official who was briefed on the investigation but was not authorized to publicly discuss it.

rampage, coming less than two weeks before Christmas, was the nation's second-deadliest school shooting, exceeded only by the Virginia Tech massacre that left 33 people dead in 2007.

Panicked parents looking for their children raced to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, a prosperous community of about 27,000 people 60 miles northeast of New York City. Youngsters at the kindergarten-through-fourth-grade school were told to close their eyes by police as they were led from the building.

Schoolchildren — some crying, others looking frightened — were escorted through a parking lot in a line, hands on each other's shoulders.

"Our hearts are broken today," a tearful President Barack Obama, struggling to maintain composure, said at the White House. He called for "meaningful action" to prevent such shootings.
Youngsters and their parents described teachers locking doors and ordering the children to huddle in the corner or hide in closets when shots echoed through the building. Authorities didn't say exactly how the shootings unfolded.

They also gave no details on the victim discovered at another scene, except to say that the person was an adult found dead by police while they were investigating the gunman.
A law enforcement official identified the gunman as 20-year-old Adam Lanza, the son of a teacher. A second law enforcement official said his mother, Nancy Lanza, was presumed dead.
Adam Lanza's older brother, 24-year-old Ryan, of Hoboken, N.J., was being questioned.

The law enforcement official who said Adam Lanza had a possible personality disorder said Ryan Lanza had been extremely cooperative, was not believed to have any involvement in the rampage and was not under arrest or in custody, but investigators were still searching his computers and phone records. Ryan Lanza told law enforcement he had not been in touch with his brother since about 2010.

All three law enforcement officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record about the unfolding investigation.
The gunman drove to the school in his mother's car, the second official said. Three guns were found — a Glock and a Sig Sauer, both pistols, inside the school, and a .223-caliber rifle in the back of a car.
State police Lt. Paul Vance said 28 people in all were killed, including the gunman, and one person was injured.

Robert Licata said his 6-year-old son was in class when the gunman burst in and shot the teacher.
"That's when my son grabbed a bunch of his friends and ran out the door," he said. "He was very brave. He waited for his friends."
He said the shooter didn't utter a word.
Stephen Delgiadice said his 8-year-old daughter was in the school and heard two big bangs. Teachers told her to get in a corner, he said.

"It's alarming, especially in Newtown, Connecticut, which we always thought was the safest place in America," he said. His daughter was fine.
Mergim Bajraliu, 17, heard the gunshots echo from his home and ran to check on his 9-year-old sister at the school. He said his sister, who was fine, heard a scream come over the intercom at one point. He said teachers were shaking and crying as they came out of the building.
"Everyone was just traumatized," he said.

Mary Pendergast, who lives close to the school, said her 9-year-old nephew was in the school at the time of the shooting, but wasn't hurt after his music teacher helped him take cover in a closet.
Richard Wilford's 7-year-old son, Richie, is in the second grade at the school. His son told him that he heard a noise that "sounded like what he described as cans falling."
The boy told him a teacher went out to check on the noise, came back in, locked the door and had the kids huddle up in the corner until police arrived.

"There's no words," Wilford said. "It's sheer terror, a sense of imminent danger, to get to your child and be there to protect him."
On Friday afternoon, family members were led away from a firehouse that was being used as a staging area, some of them weeping. One man, wearing only a T-shirt without a jacket, put his arms around a woman as they walked down the middle of the street, oblivious to everything around them.
Another woman with tears rolling down her face walked by carrying a car seat with a young infant inside and a bag that appeared to have toys and stuffed animals.

"Evil visited this community today and it's too early to speak of recovery, but each parent, each sibling, each member of the family has to understand that Connecticut — we're all in this together. We'll do whatever we can to overcome this event," Gov. Dannel Malloy said.
Adam Lanza and his mother lived in a well-to-do part of Newtown where neighbors are doctors or hold white-collar positions at companies such as General Electric, Pepsi and IBM.
The shootings instantly brought to mind episodes such as the Columbine High School massacre that killed 15 in 1999 and the July shootings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., that left 12 dead.

"You go to a movie theater in Aurora and all of a sudden your life is taken," Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis said. "You're at a shopping mall in Portland, Ore., and your life is taken. This morning, when parents kissed their kids goodbye knowing that they are going to be home to celebrate the holiday season coming up, you don't expect this to happen. I think as a society, we need to come together. It has to stop, these senseless deaths."

Obama's comments on the tragedy amounted to one of the most outwardly emotional moments of his presidency.
"The majority of those who died were children — beautiful, little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old," Obama said.
He paused for several seconds to keep his composure as he teared up and wiped an eye. Nearby, two aides cried and held hands as they listened to Obama.
"They had their entire lives ahead of them — birthdays, graduations, wedding, kids of their own," Obama continued about the victims. "Among the fallen were also teachers, men and women who devoted their lives to helping our children."
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (AP) — An imprisoned man whose infatuation with Justin Bieber included a tattoo of the pop star on his leg has told investigators in New Mexico he hatched a plot to kill the singer, according to documents recently filed in a New Mexico court.

An affidavit filed in Las Cruces said Dana Martin told investigators he persuaded a man he met in prison and the man's nephew to kill Bieber, along with Bieber's personal bodyguard and two others not connected to the pop star.

The plot contained several gruesome details. Investigators say the plotters wanted to castrate two of the victims with hedge clippers before traveling to New York City to find Bieber. The targets of the castration plot were not connected to Bieber, authorities say, and it doesn't appear that the pop singer was ever in immediate danger of falling victim to the plot.

Martin, a Vermont man who is serving two life sentences for the 2000 killing of a 15-year-old girl, said he was angry at Bieber because he didn't respond to any of his letters. "This perceived slight made Mr Martin upset and that, coupled with Mr Martin's perception of being a `nobody' in prison, led him to begin plotting the kidnap and murder of Victim 3," court documents said.

Martin told investigators that Mark Staake,41, and Tanner D. Ruane,23, headed from New Mexico to the East Coast, planning to be near a Bieber concert scheduled in New York City after killing and castrating two others. But authorities say they missed a turn and crossed into Canada from Vermont. Staake was arrested on an outstanding warrant. Ruane was arrested later.

Court documents say Martin told investigators that Bieber was the "ultimate target." No one was killed in the alleged elaborate plot.

Clinton Norris, of the New Mexico State Police investigations bureau in Las Cruces, said in an affidavit that Martin instructed the suspects to strangle the two first intended targets with paisley neckties, the same kind used in his 2000 murder case.

Thursday, 13 December 2012

LOS ANGELES,USA (AP) - The world's attention wavered between the tragic and the silly in 2012, and along the way, millions of people searched the Web to find out about a royal princess, the latest iPad, and a record-breaking skydiver.

Whitney Houston was the "top trending" search of the year, according to Google Inc.'s year-end "zeitgeist" report. Google's 12th annual roundup is "an in-depth look at the spirit of the times as seen through the billions of searches on Google over the past year," the company said in a blog post Wednesday.

People around the globe searched en masse for news about Houston's accidental drowning in a bathtub just before she was to perform at a pre-Grammy Awards party in February.

Google defines topics as "trending" when they garner a high amount of traffic over a sustained period of time.

Korean rapper PSY's "Gangnam Style" music video trotted into second spot, a testament to his self-deprecating giddy-up dance move. The video is approaching a billion views on YouTube.

Superstorm Sandy, the damaging storm that knocked out power and flooded parts of the East Coast in the midst of a US presidential campaign, was third.

The next biggest trending searches globally were a pair of threes: the iPad 3 tablet from Apple Inc. and Diablo 3, a popular video game.

Rounding out the Top 10 were Kate Middleton, who made news with scandalous photos and a royal pregnancy; the 2012 Olympics in London; Amanda Todd, a Canadian teen who was found dead of an apparent suicide in October after being bullied online; Michael Clarke Duncan, the "Green Mile" actor who died of a heart attack in September at age 54; and "BBB12," the 12th edition of "Big Brother Brasil," a reality show.

Sunday, 9 December 2012

Data gathered from diGJamaica.com has revealed that the nation has, up to September, incurred billions of dollars in new debt, the value of which could, theoretically, go a far way in addressing many of the island's greatest concerns.

According to the data, for the period January to September 2012, Jamaica had incurred an estimated J$81.9 billion of additional debt.

Put more simply, Jamaica has added debt at the rate of J$299 million per day or J$12.5 million per hour, or J$207,000 per minute or, finally, almost J$3,461 per second.

In context, Jamaica added debt at a rate per day that could have paid the annual salaries of 167 new primary and secondary level teachers. The nation added enough debt per hour that could buy three state-of-the-art ventilators and leave change for machine maintenance.

The Government of Jamaica has agreed to new debt, which, per minute could have almost paid for a University of the West Indies' student's education and finally, new debt has been incurred each second that could alternately have comfortably bought a patty, coco bread and box drink for a dozen homeless persons.

The nation ended 2011 with debt in excess of J$1.63 trillion according to the Debt Management Unit of the Ministry of Finance. At the end of September 2012, calculations estimate the nation's debt has grown this year by about five per cent to J$1.71 trillion.

Domestic debt has grown by 10.5 per cent, mostly through the issuance of US$ denominated debt. This debt is counted towards domestic debt but its value changes in line with the foreign exchange rate.

External debt has actually fallen in US$ terms by 5.1 per cent. However, because the J$ has depreciated by 3.8 per cent (up to September 30) relative to the US$, external debt has only fallen by 1.4 per cent in J$ terms.

Given that the dollar has devalued further since September, the value of the total debt stands to increase. What is heartening, however, is that domestic debt was actually stable in September versus August.

Friday, 7 December 2012

Prostate cancer is a killer among men. Statistics show that as many as one in six men will be diagnosed with the disease during his lifetime. Recent research on the subject gives tips on how to combat and prevent the cancer.

Increase Intake of Omega 3 Fatty Acids

A study undertaken by John S. Witte at the University of California has proven that men who ate fish such as salmon regularly (more than once a week), lowered their risk of developing an aggressive form of prostate cancer by 63% over those who seldom ate this type of fish. Ocean derived omega 3 fats are said to be the best supplements for prostate health.

Superfoods – Walnuts and Pomegranates

Ongoing research into superfoods and prostate health suggests that men should eat pomegranates and walnuts regularly as a preventative measure against prostate cancer. Phenylpropanoids and flavones that are found in pomegranates, for example, prevent cancer cells from interacting with testosterone and spreading in the body. Compounds present in walnuts were linked to a 30% slower growth rate of tumors and 50% smaller tumors in mice tested for cancerous tumors.

Vitamin D and Prostate Cancer

According to Professor Johanthan Waxman, Imperial College in London, “Vitamin D is a treatment which is unlikely to have significant toxicity and is a welcome addition to the therapeutic options for patients with prostate cancer”. Vitamin D not only increases calcium absorption, it has shown promise in helping to prevent certain cancers, notably prostate cancer. Vitamin D, can be obtained by simply spending time in the sun but it also can be obtained in supplement form.

Lower Cholesterol to Lower Prostate Cancer Risk

“Men with lower cholesterol levels have an almost 60% lower chance of suffering from an aggressive type of prostate cancer”, according to John Hopkins science studies. Losing weight, getting plenty of exercise and consuming a healthy diet will all help to reduce cholesterol levels.

Green Tea can Prevent Prostate Cancer

Antioxidants found in green tea are believed to prevent and treat prostrate cancer.

According to the National Cancer Institute, green tea contains polyphenol compounds, which are antioxidants and may prevent cancer. More research is underway.

Prostate cancer treatment can be successfully treated with natural remedies, provided the cancer has not progressed too far. Depending on the stage of the disease, professionals will help you to decide the best approach in treating prostate cancer.

Prostate cancer forms in the prostate gland, found in the male reproductive system and occurs when cells in the prostate begin to grow abnormally. It is a leading cause of death in men in many parts of the world.

There are a variety of treatment options for prostate cancer, both conventional and alternative. A man who has received a positive diagnosis for prostate cancer should research and learn all he can about conventional and alternative treatments so he can make an informed decision regarding which route to take.

Seek the advice of a medical professional and get a second opinion if necessary. Much depends on the the stage or extent of the disease in planning the best approach to treat prostate cancer.

Conventional Treatment for Prostate Cancer

Surgery to remove the prostate and cancer surrounding it, radiation therapy and chemotherapy are the most common conventional therapies used to treat prostate cancer.

Alternative Treatment for Prostate Cancer

Diet – What to Include: A change in diet is recommended by most alternative treatment cancer practitioners.

Do eat a diet high in fresh, home grown, organic fruits and vegetables, and nuts and grains that contain nutrients that kill cancer cells and are said to stop cancer from spreading.

Mineral supplements to include: Because of their strong anti-cancer properties, minerals to include would be selenium, calcium and magnesium. Modest amounts of zinc are recommended. A wide range of trace minerals, preferably in colloidal form are usually prescribed by alternative practitioners to fight prostate cancer.

Prostate Cancer Treatment Centers

There are cancer treatment centers that offer non-invasive alternative treatment for patients who do choose to fight cancer the non-conventional way. Other centers offer a combination of complementary and traditional cancer treatments with the potential of not only improving the patient's life expectancy but also improving the patient's quality of life.

Monday, 3 December 2012

CANCER IS a scourge for which there seems to be no wholesale
antidote. It attacks and kills just about anyone. No respecter of race,
politics, religion and social status it is. It has decimated familial
ties and relationships, and even attempted to destroy the love affair
between Ray and Yvonne Kirlew of Discovery Bay, St Ann.

Diagnosed with lymphatic cancer (Hodgkin's lymphoma) in late
2002, Yvonne went through an agonising period of chemotherapy which
twisted and wracked her being with pain and nausea, in its efforts to
kill the cancer cells. It was killing her instead, and so she planned
her own funeral. But Ray was determined that the woman he loves was not
going to leave him, and he nursed her back to good health. By December
2004, it seemed that Yvonne was cancer-free.

The Gleaner told their story in a two-part instalment in
July 2007, and we also updated readers in January last year with the
news that the cancer had returned between December 2008 and March 2009.
Yvonne got ill again, and the dreaded chemotheraphy was suggested.
Around the same time, Ray got an email about the cancer-curing
properties of the soursop tree. He did some further research, and was
mesmerised by what he read. Not having any empirical evidence, he set
out to make the leaves and bark of the soursop tree into a concoction
that would kill Yvonne's cancer cells.
After much encouragement from Ray, Yvonne drank the potion. She
got sicker initially, and refused to drink any more, but Ray urged her
on. After a month of being on the dose, Yvonne's health improve
tremendously. Tests in September 2009 to determine when chemo-therapy
would commence showed that the movement of the cancer cells had stopped.
Amazingly! More tests were done, and up to Monday, January 18, 2010,
when The Gleaner reported that 'Raymond Kirlew 'cures' wife cancer with soursop leaves', Yvonne, who gets tested regularly, but had no cancer.
There were many sceptics, some of whom said it was a matter of
time before the cancer cells return. Some readers even questioned Ray's
wisdom, or lack thereof, for administering the soursop concoctions to
his wife, despite the fact that he is not a medical doctor. But now, Ray
is saying since the story broke, many people, including medical doctors
themselves, have contacted him seeking advice on how to prepare the
potion.
"Everyone who has called me regarding this soursop treatment, I
have never ever asked for a penny, nor have I got a penny, and was not
expecting any. I know for a fact that this thing has saved my wife, and
whosoever wants to know how to make it, I would be happy to give them
that information," Ray said.
Living cancer-free

He has even told the story of a woman, known personally to him,
who had lung cancer and was sent home to die because the cancer had
spread to other organs. She is now living her life cancer-free after
drinking the soursop potion. Another gentleman who was suspected of
having a tumour in his brain is now doing well too. Some of those who
refused to drink the concoction, Ray said, are now dead.
Ray and Yvonne have no regrets. They are convinced that Yvonne is
alive because of the soursop tree, which bears that 'jucky-jucky' fruit
that gives us that after-Sunday dinner belch. But what does Yvonne have
to say to people who are still of the view that she is using a
concoction not prescribed by doctors or approved by the authorities?

"I would say to them that the same way chemotherapy is used in
treating cancer patients, it was more than likely discovered by people
who were trying to find a cure. By testing these treatments over a long
period of time, people were healed, even temporarily ... . I am one of
the lucky ones, I think, because I tried something that may not have
been proven, may not be in the medical books, but I tried it and it
works for me."
And it seems to have work wonders for Yvonne in other ways. "I
also had a problem with my blood pressure. I have a tendency to have
high blood pressure, and whenever I take the soursop drink, my pressure
is down ... . I am convinced that the soursop helps to kill the cancer
cells, lower my blood pressure, and to repair the damaged nerves," she
said. The chemotherapy that she went through in 2003 had damaged some of
her nerves, and thus she was having problems with her coordination.
It is almost 10 years since Yvonne, whose mother, father and
brother had died of cancer, was diagnosed, and almost two years since
she had started drinking the soursop concoction. Very recently, she went
to New York to do some more tests. A week before she left, she was
feeling pain in some major lymph nodes. So, she was a bit nervous upon
leaving the island. Well, she is back, with a clean bill of health, and
the pain is gone.

She still has the dress she had planned to spend eternity in.
It's in her closet, still clean, still stylish, but she has no plan to
wear it anytime soon. And even so, it might just be too small, she said.

Sunday, 2 December 2012

Many people find that they have problem areas where they just
cannot get fat to budge. Hand’s up if you’re one of the millions who
find themselves with a stubborn layer of fat around their waist?It’s frustrating that, although you may be making an effort with your
diet and trying to exercise more, sometimes it feels impossible
to reduce fat around your belly. With an active lifestyle there are
several steps you can take to help you become or remain trim all over.

Breaking down the fat loss myth

I’m sorry to say that there is no such thing as spot reduction, we
just don’t get to choose where our body stores fat and we can’t remove
it from particular places when we decide we don’t want it. It’s a
disheartening fact but hundreds of sit-ups and stomach crunches on their
own won’t immediately help you lose that spare tire. The good news is
that with diet and exercise together, you can burn your excess fat and
by following my three belly fat busting tips that spare tire will soon
deflate.

Three simple tips to help you reduce the appearance of belly fat

Here are my three go-to belly busters that help keep me stress free and in control of my figure.

Belly buster tip 1: Make time to be active

Although you can’t spot reduce and only target a flabby tummy, you
shouldn’t discount the benefits of general exercise. If you can find
time for a physical activity every day, then you’ll soon find yourself
firming up all over.I know you’ve heard it before but being active and becoming
physically fit is also wonderful way to cut through the stress in your
life. Spending time exercising can give you a time out and help you
reprioritize. Even better, the time you spend exercising is time when
you can’t be eating!

Belly buster tip 2: Take a deep breath

Practice conscious breathing by inhaling through your nose and
letting the air expand into your tummy, then breathe out through your
mouth. Stopping work and taking 5-10 conscious breaths can calm your
mind and give you a rejuvenating time out. Don’t let stress creep up and
leave you feeling frazzled by the end of the day, that way may lead to
comfort eating. Try this breathing technique as often as you remember
(you may even want to stick up a post-it note to yourself). Take the
time to think about your body and how you want it to look. This mindful
technique may help you avoid a donut or re-prioritize a trip to the
gym.

Belly buster tip 3: Pull your shoulders back and your tummy in

Schedule a stretching break instead of a coffee break. You can do
simple stretches and exercises from the comfort of your office chair or
while you’re on the phone. Try pulling in your tummy when your sitting
or standing for 30 seconds at a time and you’ll be strengthening your
core stomach muscles. And, if you have a minute, then take a moment to
stand up straight, pull your shoulders back and walk tall. Improving
your posture can help make you feel more alert and in better shape.

***

Although there are no quick-fix solutions, you’ll instantly feel
better if you begin to exercise, take control of your figure and make
the time to think about you. Whatever your problem area – be it a
wobbly belly, thunder thighs or a double chin – with a consistent
exercise routine and patience you can improve your physique.

Saturday, 1 December 2012

Yes, many "online jobs" promising quick riches and little effort are
really scams. While the tasks below won't make you rich, they can earn
you a little pocket money on the side—and these days that can make a big
difference.
Most
of these online money making opportunities only require you have a
computer, a decent internet connection, and some sort of marketable
skill (or the ability to provide valuable consumer insight to
marketers). You'll be operating as a free agent and can choose when,
where, and how much to participate.
Sound too good to be true?
It's not, because as mentioned earlier, you won't likely be able to quit
your day job with any of these programs, which typically pay way less
than regular part-time gigs. But if you're a student, insomniac, or just
someone who wants an occasional cash boost without the commitment
required by a typical job, these are some of the best tasks you can do
online in your spare time.
Also beware: because specialized
skills aren't always required, you do have to be wary of scams. Before
you sign up to become a virtual focus group participant, paid survey
taker, mystery shopper or any online worker, keep in mind this important rule of thumb: you should never have to pay to work. Also, read the fine print.

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That out of the way, here are a few sources of legitimate online single-task jobs:

Research Study/Survey Participant:Harvard Business School Computer Lab for Experimental Research (CLER):
Participate in research studies at Harvard Business School and you can
earn $15 to $40 or more per on-site study (in Cambridge, MA) or do one
of their occasional online studies, which typically take less than 15
minutes to complete and usually compensate you with a $5 electronic gift
certificate. The studies ask you about decisions you would make in
various business-related disciplines, such as economics and psychology. Additional options: Lightspeed Consumer Panel, Pinecone Research, SurveySpot.

Artificial Artificial Intelligence:Amazon Mechanical Turk:
Yeah, that's a weird title. As a Mechanical Turk Worker (or MTurk), you
complete odd jobs like looking up companies' hours of operation,
checking translations, coming up with ideas for marketing projects, and
so on. The pay can be extremely low — a couple of cents even — but the
tasks can usually be done quickly and some tasks pay more. Additional option: ShortTask.

User Tester:UserTesting.com:
Get $10 for visiting a website and providing live, honest feedback
about it. Your reactions as you traipse the site are recorded by
UserTesting's software. Additional option: uTest.

Tech Support Expert:FixYa.com:
Put your knowledge to good use at FixYa and earn $2 to $6 for answering
a posted question, $6 to $10 for helping someone in chat, $10-$15 if
you do it by phone, or a variable amount for written tips and how-to's. Additional options: Support Space, JustAnswer.

Blogger:Commission Junction:
If you maintain a blog already, you can monetize it by inserting
advertising links or affiliate links from Commission Junction, LinkShare, Chitika, Smorty, and, of course, Google AdSense.
There's no set amount you can make (and no guarantee you'll make
anything at all), but if you write often and get a decent following, you
can generate some nice supplemental income.